Yesterday, I decided that I would make another batch. My 2nd one and it was going to be an English Pale Ale DME kit.
I've had a Cream Ale sitting in a primary for a week and the final gravity had stabilized two days in a row. I figured since I had a glass carboy that I would rack it off so I could use the fermenter again.
After getting the cream ale racked off, I picked the damn carboy up and tripped down the stairs to my garage where I was going to put it in my freezer (temp controlled). Doing what any beer lover would do, I tucked and rolled and landed on my back, saving the glass carboy from harm.
Fricken hurts this morning. Now my cream ale is all shaken up but safely tucked away in the freezer. It owes me so it better be good.
So I go back to my new brew and get a nice cold break. I did not see clumps of stuff on my first one but after reading quite a bit here, it looked right on this batch.
Then I accidentally punched the stupid grommet into the beer. After washing my hands and arm and pouring sanitizing stuff all over it, I dig it out and do it again. (Slow learner).
I get it sealed up and remember that I probably ought to add the dry yeast to make beer. Open it back up, resanitize the bottom of the lid and pitch the yeast. Seal it up and agitate to get oxygen in there.
Then I carry it, carefully this time, to my freezer and set it in and of course remembering at 2 am that I had not taken a sample to test gravity.
So I figured out why I had so many problems this go around. You see, the first batch, I was drinking like a mad man and this one I wasn't. Made a notation in my beer log as a lesson learned so I won't have so many problems with the 3rd batch.
I'm off on travel for a few weeks so I'm just going to let it sit in there at 66 degrees and hope I have decent beer when I come back
At least it's bubbling this morning.
I've had a Cream Ale sitting in a primary for a week and the final gravity had stabilized two days in a row. I figured since I had a glass carboy that I would rack it off so I could use the fermenter again.
After getting the cream ale racked off, I picked the damn carboy up and tripped down the stairs to my garage where I was going to put it in my freezer (temp controlled). Doing what any beer lover would do, I tucked and rolled and landed on my back, saving the glass carboy from harm.
Fricken hurts this morning. Now my cream ale is all shaken up but safely tucked away in the freezer. It owes me so it better be good.
So I go back to my new brew and get a nice cold break. I did not see clumps of stuff on my first one but after reading quite a bit here, it looked right on this batch.
Then I accidentally punched the stupid grommet into the beer. After washing my hands and arm and pouring sanitizing stuff all over it, I dig it out and do it again. (Slow learner).
I get it sealed up and remember that I probably ought to add the dry yeast to make beer. Open it back up, resanitize the bottom of the lid and pitch the yeast. Seal it up and agitate to get oxygen in there.
Then I carry it, carefully this time, to my freezer and set it in and of course remembering at 2 am that I had not taken a sample to test gravity.
So I figured out why I had so many problems this go around. You see, the first batch, I was drinking like a mad man and this one I wasn't. Made a notation in my beer log as a lesson learned so I won't have so many problems with the 3rd batch.
I'm off on travel for a few weeks so I'm just going to let it sit in there at 66 degrees and hope I have decent beer when I come back
At least it's bubbling this morning.
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